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Cereals, Opinion

Record-High Food Prices? Or Just Better Than Record Lows?

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Reporters and politicians are making frequent references to high food prices – some going so far as to suggest prices are nearing record levels. But for the farmers and peasants who produce the world’s food, prices are nowhere near record highs. In fact, what is currently happening to corn, beans, rice, or wheat prices would
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Federal Food Guide Puzzles Food Industry

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A new guide that’s supposed to help companies navigate the food-safety system instead has the industry scratching its collective head about the purpose of the document. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has posted an updated Guide to Food Safety on its web-site. It’s a voluntary tool to provide generic guidance on how to design, develop
Crops

Local Food Activists Urged To Seek Common Cause With Farmers

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The modern warehouse-on- wheels food distribution system, with its just-in-time delivery from producers to processors, and finally to retailers, works just fine. But there is a dark side. Not only is it totally dependent on a smoothly functioning economy and uninterrupted supplies of fossil fuel for powering every link in the chain, it is also
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MP Proposes National Food Day

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Farmers should be as much a part of Thanksgiving as family gatherings and turkey dinners, says NDP MP Malcolm Allen who wants the Friday before the holiday to be known as National Local Food Day. Allen, the party’s food safety critic, presented a bill to the Commons Oct. 7 to authorize the change. It was
Country Crossroads

Blue Moon Saskatoon Welcomes Guests

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Leslie and Dale Luhowy had a special treat to serve some recent visitors – freshly baked saskatoon pie made with berries from their very own orchard. The family’s saskatoon operation was a definite draw for folks participating in the province’s first Open Farm Day Sept. 19. But while they were there, visitors also learned about
Crops

Food Safety Culture Grows Among Processors

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Food safety has become a critical issue for consumers, governments and industry leaders, according to a recent report on food safety management released by Deloitte. Eighty-three per cent of consumers can name a product that was recalled due to safety concerns in the last two years; 76 per cent of consumers report they are more
Oilseeds, Opinion

Farmers As… Health-Care Professionals?

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It’s become common for farmers to refer to themselves as food producers, environmental managers or businesspeople. Now a discussion paper recently commissioned by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) aims to radically expand their job description. How about adding “health-care professional” to your resumé? Concluding that farmers’ fortunes and public health are intrinsically linked, the
Beef cattle, Country Crossroads, Livestock

Commodities Down But Food Prices Lag

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“It’s not likely we’re going to be reducing prices in the near term.” – DOUGLAS CONANT, CAMPBELL CEO Commodity costs may be off their record highs and consumers may be struggling, but that doesn’t mean food manufacturers are about to slash prices. Many companies such as Campbell Soup Co. and Hormel Foods Corp. are still
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Versatile adds easy financing to its reputation for easy servicing

Saving time and resources is important to today’s food producers. And now, Versatile has added new programs that do both. Farming more acres than ever before, individual producers have to cover a lot of ground in a short time. Their success depends on speed, and time saved with easy, efficient servicing. This equals more hours
Opinion

U. S. farmers get another governor

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If conventional leadership and bureaucratic competency had a face, it would look exactly like Thomas J. Vilsack: round as an apple pie, chin disappearing under sagging cheeks, greying (and amply present) hair. President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Vilsack, the two-term (1998-2006) Iowa governor, to lead the U. S. Department of Agriculture marks the third non-farming

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